If you expect to suffer transcendence or expect to find god you are more likely to do so than if you dose yourself without such preconceptions. The drug does not take complete control of the brain. It is susceptible to guidance, it can be nudged in a particular direction both by intellectual preparation and by exterior stimuli – place, people, climate. The effect of the experience can be purely material. That is what Porton scientists would probably have expected, thus would probably have got.
